![]() ![]() I admit I’ve been inclined to share their verdict, based on Wright’s first novel, Native Son, published in 1940, which I read again and again in classes before and during college. The two of them never ceased to love Wright’s prose, but they came to reject his perspective.įrom the August 1944 issue: Richard Wright’s “I Tried to Be a Communist” Calling Wright “Poor Richard,” Baldwin joined Ellison in lamenting their mentor’s failure to see the beauty of Black people. ![]() Ellison grew committed to the poetry of American democracy, despite how badly it was sullied he swore by the virtues of individualism. Though it happened slowly, by 1941, Ellison betrayed signs of feeling that Wright, affiliated off and on with the Communist Party, wrote fiction that was too ideological and not sensitive enough to nuance: Wright wanted to testify to the monstrosities of white supremacy, rather than the power of Black resilience. Baldwin, too, started out as a pupil and an admirer who saw Wright poised to be the greatest Black writer in the United States. Ellison responded that he was trying to learn to write well by imitating his mentor. Wright, who took Ellison under his wing in New York in the late 1930s, told his acolyte to stop copying him, that he was mimicking, not cultivating his own style. R ichard Wright, the father figure of African American literature, both nurtured and was rejected by his two most conspicuous heirs, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin. This article was published online on May 7, 2021. Illustration by Ayşe Klinge Bettmann / Getty ![]()
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